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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for November 2021:

Classic:
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
— Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad, 1869.

Direct:
To migrate, especially alone, to an alien environment full of people with strange ways, and to be forced to integrate oneself — that is the kind of move that sets the mind to working inventively.
— First Sociology, 1982, p. 453.

Garden moment for November 2021:

Fall colours in the garden in front of our home in Niagara Falls, Canada.

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